Wikipedia:WikiProject Linux

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At the moment, this project has just started, and needs members. Join if you are interested in Linux. The aim is to get as many users as possible. Advocate to fellow Linux contributors and get them on board. If you know someone who contributes here and uses Linux make sure they are aware of this project. Please help out by indexing all the Linux articles you know of on Wikipedia:WikiProject Linux/index.

To Do

Index all the Wikipedia articles you know of about Linux on Wikipedia:WikiProject Linux/index.
Focus on the GNOME article and work on making it FA status.
Translate (or have translated) the German article on history of Linux; the page for the translation is here.
The article Vector Linux needs wikify.
The article NASLite needs some work on it.
The article Dyne:bolic needs wikify.

Add/change/remove to do

Shortcut: WP:LINUX

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Linux. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

1 Title
2 Scope
3 Participants
4 Goals
5 State of affairs
6 Mini collaboration
7 Templates
8 Categories
9 Supported Articles
10 Wikipedia surveys
- 10.1 Ongoing Wikipedia surveys
  - 10.1.1 Deletion links

[edit] Title

WikiProject Linux

[edit] Scope

WikiProject Linux is an attempt at creating a community of Linux wikipedians to maintain and write for Linux articles on Wikipedia. The aim of this project is to make sure that all Linux articles are kept upto date, cited, clean, factually accurate and NPOV.

[edit] Participants

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Reisio 01:51, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
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Animehair 18:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
M.shady 00:13, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
NerdyNSK 00:13, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
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Squidfish 09:40, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Shadow1 (talk)
Kari Hazzard (T | C) 19:02, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Tom Harrison ^Talk 20:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
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benjaminevans82 15:00 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Secretlondon 01:43, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Goals

To improve the quality and expand the range of Linux-related articles on Wikipedia.
To improve articles such that they would serve as useful to beginners and experts alike, by providing both simple and more technical descriptions.
To spread awareness of Linux, in a respectful and realistic manner, to other Wikipedians.

[edit] State of affairs

The following is a list of current featured articles and good articles directly related to Linux:

Distributions:

Kernel:

Software:

Philosophy:

GNU/Linux naming controversy

[edit] Mini collaboration

For now, we need to collaborate on getting the WikiProject organised and get a healthy set of articles/lists marked up with the Wikiproject template. In the future I plan to use this space to advertise a specific article that we want to get to good article status.

To vote for or nominate the next Mini Collaboration, go to this page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Linux/Mini Collaboration Nominations.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stub template

For Linux stub articles use the standard {{linux-stub}} or one of its sub-stub categories.

[edit] Article Page template

On the talk pages of the articles that we are focusing on, please put in this template: {{Linuxproject}}. It should appear like this:

This article is part of WikiProject Linux, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Linux on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this notice, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

At the moment this project has just started and has not made any contribution to the Linux articles as yet. Now is more of a recruitment drive, and the current project is to get as many Linux articles tagged as possible.

Please don't add this to articles we have not yet had an effect on. It frustrates some of the editors that have worked hard on the article in the first place.